Re: Newbie needs help

[Christian Fromme <kaner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Bob
Williams<security@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Can you enable logging for Tor and check if you see some errors? Or
>> see anything at all?
>>
> I have the following line uncommented in torrc
>
> Log notice file /var/log/tor/notices.log
>
> and that file contains the following
>
> ---quote---
> Jul 23 09:15:19.124 [notice] Tor 0.2.0.35 opening new log file.
> Jul 23 09:15:19.295 [warn] Couldn't load consensus networkstatus from
> "/home/bob/.tor/cached-consensus"
> Jul 23 09:15:19.601 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
> not enough to build a circuit: We have no network-status consensus.
> Jul 23 09:15:21.794 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
> not enough to build a circuit: We have only 0/1663 usable descriptors.
> Jul 23 09:15:23.563 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
> not enough to build a circuit: We have only 96/1663 usable descriptors.
> Jul 23 09:15:24.436 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
> not enough to build a circuit: We have only 192/1663 usable descriptors.
> Jul 23 09:15:24.460 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
> not enough to build a circuit: We have only 288/1663 usable descriptors.
> Jul 23 09:15:25.236 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
> not enough to build a circuit: We have only 318/1663 usable descriptors.
> Jul 23 09:15:25.666 [notice] I learned some more directory information, but
> not enough to build a circuit: We have only 413/1663 usable descriptors.
> Jul 23 09:15:26.076 [notice] We now have enough directory information to build
> circuits.
> Jul 23 09:15:33.062 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like
> client functionality is working.
> Jul 23 18:49:38.498 [notice] Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config.
> Jul 23 18:49:38.499 [notice] Tor 0.2.0.35 opening log file.
> Jul 23 18:49:38.500 [notice] Received reload signal (hup). Reloading config.
> Jul 23 18:49:38.500 [notice] Tor 0.2.0.35 opening log file.
> Jul 23 18:50:04.641 [notice] Catching signal TERM, exiting cleanly.
> Jul 23 20:29:44.757 [notice] Tor 0.2.0.35 opening log file.
> Jul 23 20:29:45.237 [notice] We now have enough directory information to build
> circuits.
> Jul 23 20:29:51.412 [notice] Tor has successfully opened a circuit. Looks like
> client functionality is working.
> ---unquote---
>
> I notice there is nothing recorded for today!

Can you restart Tor and see if that puts any messages in your logfile?
If not, you seem to have changed some configuration settings in the
meantime, breaking it.

Best,
Christian (kaner)